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Scientia et Fides August 24, 2026 Stanisław Szeląg
The rise of ChatGPT and various other publicly available AI chatbots has brought the discussion regarding AI to the forefront of academic and public discourse. Yet when it comes to the most important question: how genuinely intelligent, or human-like can AI be, it seems that many philosophers are satisfied with the answers given in the past century. The essay surveys some philosophical visions...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICAL THEORY August 24, 2026 Donald Somiari Ene
This paper investigates the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may not only simulate perceptual functions but participate intentionally or inadvertently in forms of subtle observation that mirror aspects of human consciousness. Bridging neuroscience, affective computing, quantum cognition, and subtle energy theories, we examine whether AI outputs, particularly from...
Frontiers in Psychology August 24, 2026 Jian-Nor Shih
The rapid growth of AI companionship has raised urgent questions about the psychological mechanisms underlying human-AI relationships. This paper investigates why and how users construct and become entrenched in relationships with AI. Drawing on the Consciousness-Only school of Buddhist psychology, this paper applies the three-natures framework and eight-consciousnesses model. According to this...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 24, 2026 Sidário Rodrigues Malheiros-junior preprint
This theoretical manuscript develops an energetic formalization of Antonio Damasio’s architecture of selfhood. Damasio’s distinctions among the proto-self, core self, and autobiographical self are converted from a descriptive taxonomy into a conditional and falsifiable model of functional endurance. For each functional layer, usable free-energy delivery is compared with time-dependent...
August 24, 2026 Dimitry Pesochin preprint
This registration locks the statistical analysis plan for the empirical Protocol Battery (Protocols 0–7) supporting the Allostatic Precision-Gated Ignition (APGI) framework, a computational theory of consciousness integrating Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, the Free Energy Principle, and interoceptive inference. The battery tests whether interoceptive precision (indexed by heartbeat-evoked...
American Behavioral Scientist August 24, 2026 Oleg Maltsev, Maryna Illiusha
Contemporary theories of consciousness have generated increasingly sophisticated explanations of perception, cognition, embodiment, information processing, and subjective experience. More recently, growing attention has been devoted to the temporal dimensions of conscious life, including anticipation, memory, duration, and lived temporality. Despite these advances, comparatively little...
August 24, 2026 Qi Zhang
Subjectivity and awareness are widely regarded as core properties of consciousness, and explaining their nature remains a major challenge in consciousness research. While many existing theories provide predominantly qualitative accounts, the development of quantitative modeling may bridge the explanatory gap. This study expands the Twin Cognitive Cycle (TCC) model by focusing on quantifying the...
Explore August 23, 2026 Siddhant Nikam, Nimisha S Narayan
Patients undergoing Still Point induction via compression of the fourth ventricle (CV4) in cranial osteopathy commonly report a distinctive quality of profound mental quiet, described as qualitatively different from ordinary relaxation. Cranial osteopathy, however, entered a prolonged crisis of scientific credibility once controlled work indicated that its founding construct, the Primary...
International Journal of Contemporary Education August 23, 2026 He Li, Xiao Lei
This systematic narrative review bridges cultural anthropology and cognitive psychology, proposing experimental anthropology as an interdisciplinary framework to address the longstanding divide between these two fields. Experimental anthropology, which focuses on the interplay among culture, experience, and neural mechanisms, has experienced significant growth in recent years. Although...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 23, 2026 Francis Smith preprint
This preprint develops a state-space account of phenomenal character in which conscious experience depends not only on the configuration presently realized, but also on the represented structure of transitions available from that configuration. The framework distinguishes current phenomenal configuration, external anchoring, and a prospective transition field describing the topology of...